Mini Cheese Cakes

Things have been pretty quiet lately... which I have been trying to welcome it with open arms.  Today I was full of morning energy so after I baked some almond poppyseed muffins, I searched for a cheese cake recipe.

I am notorious for wanting to bake something and always missing ONE ingredient. Boogers! I needed heavy whipping cream. Had none. So I looked up how to MAKE heavy whipping cream. And well.. unless you lived on a farm with cows- you can't make home made heavy whipping cream. Ok so I inventoried again on what I had. I had ready to bake dough, sour cream, cream cheese, eggs and sugar. There HAD to be a recipe with this stuff to make a cheese cake.. Grrrr. I came up empty handed. Then I found one that used chocolate chip cookie dough... and the aerosol whipped cream. HARK! Yes.. I have that! Ok well.. I had sugar cookie dough.

I wanted something bigger than muffins/ cupcakes so I used my mini pie tin. I scooped an ice cream scooper size of cookie dough into each "cup". I rolled it in my hands and flattened. I can not confirm nor deny if I actually licked my hands after that.

Then I took my softened cream cheese and some sugar (that is what that white canister is), put on my whipped attachment and watched it turn into creamy goodness

wheeeeeeeee.. It is so much fun watching this!

Then you open up the Reddi Whip... squirt it in your mouth and squish your face... because its fun... Then squirt in kids mouth.. because that is even funnier.

After your cookies cool - for about 15 minutes and then spoon on the cream cheese mixture.

Then you can go through your pantry to see if you have any decorative SOMETHING... and then find nothing so decide to go ahead and chill it for a few hours and PRAY hubby likes it :)

Bloddy Hell

A few long weeks ago, hubby shared a photo on my fb page on these fun looking- creepy looking- cupcakes. I KNEW I had to try them. I love love love to bake stuff but it always seems to go to waste here at the house. I am the snack natzi so my kids are not really allowed to just eat and eat baked yummies all day- because trust me- they totally would. In fact... my last baked yummy was zucchini bread and I believe I was the only one that ate that whole damn pan. I had a package of those break and bake cookies... found the WRAPPERS under my boys bed- without the cookies even been cooked!

But tonight we started the prep and made step 1 in our bloody hell cupcakes :) I cant wait to document our baking adventure tomorrow and share it with you. I am sure too if you were to hurry down, we would give you one!

But our plan as of right now (before tasting them) is to take them to the Johnstown firehouse. Today they put on a community event for us which was wonderful and such a great learning experience.

So... dust off your aprons and get your dancing shoes on because tomorrow we BAKE!

Sybil Cupcakes

Yesterday hubby asked if I wanted to make some cupcakes for his work party.. umm SCHYEA! I was happy to make some goodies for other people. I mean my kids would eat them all if I let them, but this momma is not THAT nice.

So I planned on baking up some Chocolate Chip Cupcakes and S'mores. The smores were looking oh-so-yummy. And I could have for sure chowed on a few myself, but I am not that big of a fan of marshmallow... well, unless its marshmallow fluff on a pb sandwich :p

Last night though, I had a few taste testers that were up late with me while I got my bake on. Now I LOVE my taste testers- with all my heart- but I do have to think about their taste buds.. I mean for one- he likes to eat chili and eggs mixed together -BLAUGH! and the kids... well... they like anything that has sugar in it. But still I take what they have to say and alter what I need to.

The S'mores were the first test. To me, they looked AMAZING!!! But some reason, they all had a hollow middle. MOTHER FLAPPER! How the heck did THAT happen??? Hubby chowed down on one and I got rave reviews.... for a while. When he started eating the bottom of it (which was crumb batter) he was not too pleased. Hmmmm.... I tasted it and in fact had a few spoonfuls of the batter and I didn't taste anything wrong with it.... Hmm so what do I do now???

Well... The first batch I decided to get a little WILD and I drizzled carmel over the tops and on a few of them I added a piece of milk chocolate carmel Ghirardelli chocolate. YUM. The second batch of S'mores, I made a few adjustments and didnt fill the cups up as much. But I think with a glass of milk and a fork- it could possibly be ....heaven :)

Smore Cupcakes

The next batch of cupcakes up for trial and error were my SYBIL Cupcakes.. Chocolate Chip Cupcakes. Where these cookies... or were these cupcakes?? The receipe looked amazing but the mixture wasn't looking as wonderful as it sounded.

In the end- my taste testers were once again divided on the taste. Love and Not love. Grrrrr.. great! So I HAD to take a bite and try it myself. It wasn't too bad. It wasn't overly sweet like I thought it would be. And how cool is it to have a COOKIE in the middle of a cupcake. VERY COOL!

Ok so now that it was WAY past my bedtime, I decided to clean up and save the frosting part for the morning. The goal was to create Cookie Dough Frosting. This should be yummy.

......................................................MORNING.................................................

Well my allergies decided to once again attack me in the middle of the night and I woke up with a face that felt 3x bigger. My body seems to be swelling everywhere :( My son asks me every day if I am pregnant again and my daughter was all dramatic in her ways asking if I was too. Ugh. No. Maybe its all the batter I am eating... Maybe its all the stress I feel lately... maybe its that soda that I just can't stop drinking... maybe its those crazy kids that seem to force me to eat junk food. Dang- I need to get me a friend to keep me occupied at the gym so I KEEP going.   ok... where was I???

Oh yes- frosting. So I followed the directions but I have to be honest it was looking at little sketchy to me. But I trusted it and kept going. After I added everything I did my little taste test and well, I was not impressed. Great. Well its too late to do anything else- I needed to deliever these in 10 min. So instead of covering the whole cake, I did a little squirt and added some chocolate chips. Now, the littlest of the taste testers LOVED it and ate it in record time. 

So I feel like I had a failed day/ night on these cupcakes. I did find another recipe that looks a little better so I think today I will try this other one... and maybe some vanilla... hmmm... well maybe I should just wait to see how the day unfolds first :)